Alone Quotes

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

~ Miranda July

Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A hermit never lives alone when he has God as a house guest.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

If more people understood how nice it is to have a sense of home that extends past our locked doors, past our neighbors' padlocks, to the local food co-op and library, the sidewalks busted up by old trees - if we all held home with longer arms - we'd live in a very different place...We wouldn't feel so alone, no matter the size of our houses or our bank accounts, no matter whether we had good health or congestive heart failure. We would begin to see that each moment presents an opportunity to relax, to notice that the wind has shifted and a storm is coming, or that our friend's toddler has decided to wear dinner instead of eating it. We would see that each minute counts for something timeless and, if we want, we all can find our way inside these big, tiny, moments.

~ Dee Williams

Where they had once ambled alone, they now walked together home.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on asaturday.

~ Charles Bukowski

The one who stands alone can become a winner, but can he be happy

~ Prabakaran Thirumalai

Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone—You have never been alone.

~ Olivia Fuller

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

~ Björk

And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for, a girl with no new sandals and a friend who wasn’t a friend but a mistress, and a family that wasn’t but people who owned her and ordered her about, and nothing at all but her pretty breasts and her round bottom and her misbehaving hair to help her feel any different.

~ Ru Freeman

Be strong to stand alone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes one needs to stay alone, a bit of loneliness gives you the opportunity to knock on the door to your brain, and it opens with a sudden bright idea. But those who never stay alone don't even know what's inside their brains.

~ Elijah Onyenmeriogu

She’d never felt more alone, even as hundreds of people walked by. No one recognized her, and she began to treasure her anonymity as a gift.

~ Jamie Ford

A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

I walk the sand alone,and feel it stirring as I roam,upon this breathing earth,where wave on wave begins new birth.I sense a grand facade,where colors paint the hand of God.And in remorseful pain,I dance the stones of bitter strain.

~ Craig Froman

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

~ Patrick Süskind

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

~ May Sarton

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. How commonplace and stupid it would be if I had a friend now, sitting beside me, someone I had known at school, who would say: “By-the-way, I saw old Hilda the other day. You remember her, the one who was so good at tennis. She’s married, with two children.” And the bluebells beside us unnoticed, and the pigeons overhead unheard. I did not want anyone with me. Not even Maxim. If Maxim had been there I should not be lying as I was now, chewing a piece of grass, my eyes shut. I should have been watching him, watching his eyes, his expression. Wondering if he liked it, if he was bored. Wondering what he was thinking. Now I could relax, none of these things mattered. Maxim was in London. How lovely it was to be alone again.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

~ Patrick Süskind

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

~ Tamim Ansary

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

~ John Mayer

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

~ Sebastian Faulks

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

~ Jean Rhys

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

~ Mihail Sebastian

Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....

~ Jean Rhys

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

~ Patrick Süskind

I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone else and carried the plate up to my bedroom. I knew they must have thought me aloof, or a little bit eccentric, or maybe even unkind, but I didn't care. Once the kitchen door swung shut behind me, I was alone, and so everything was okay.

~ Sara Baume

Be open minded to the empowering nature of being alone.

~ Dee Waldeck

Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in self-development. I think a person has to be withdrawn into himself to gather inspiration so that he is somebody when he comes out again among folks–when he “comes to market’ with himself. He learns that he’s got to be almost wastefully alone.

~ Robert Frost

When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.

~ Paul Auster

Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.

~ Puredragonwolf

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.

~ Thomas Bernhard

Let's just enjoy it for ourselves. Dawn is such a private hour, don't you think? Such a solitary hour. One always hears that said of midnight, but I think of midnight as remarkably companionable—everyone together, sleeping in the dark.''I am afraid I am interrupting your solitude,' Anna

~ Eleanor Catton

Solitude is very different from a ’time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

You can't miss me, because I was never there.

~ Ili Ann

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan